Grimes also uses the shotgun blasts to target a mix of McConnell campaign flubs and arguments against her.

"This is the same guy who thought Duke basketball players were U-K," Grimes says, referring to a flub by McConnell's ad maker in a March web video which showed Duke University players celebrating the 2010 NCAA basketball championship rather than an intended University of Kentucky highlight. The clip lasts less than one second, but has become frequent fodder for Grimes.

"... or who's attacking me on coal," Grimes continues, " after doing nothing while we've lost thousands of coal jobs."

"He even said it's not his job to bring jobs to Kentucky," Grimes intones, repeating a quote McConnell insists was taken out of context but a Beattyville newspaper editor says was reported accurately.

The end of the ad seeks to undermine what the McConnell campaign has used as imagery in its favor, McConnell holding a shotgun over his head at the Conservative Political Action Conference before presenting it to Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R)."And, Mitch," Grimes laughs, "That's not how you hold a gun."

Chuckle all you want. That works in the Bluegrass State. It's a good ad, for a bad situation, to get rid of an awful incumbent. If this gets Mitch out of the Senate, Grimes can disagree with President Obama on some issues. Better than trying to actively block him on all issues.

1 comment:

Horace Boothroyd III
said...

The StupidiThing is, those coal jobs are going to keep on going away no matter who sits in the Senate - or in the White House, for that matter. I can understand people hurting, people being angry, and that makes them open to manipulation contrary to the facts... but as an outsider I really didn't like that ad.

Still I want her to win, because at this time the institutional support for Speaker Reid is more important than the thirty to forty percent of the votes where I expect her to defect to the bad guys.

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